Word: problem
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...Army couldn't get those choppers to war promptly and that the Pentagon was chicken to use them once they got there. Moreover, despite decades of chatter about fast, light forces, the U.S. Army still can't move a major fighting force quickly into place. That's a problem that Shelton, among others, wants fixed quickly...
...Thursday, the feds were clearly struggling with an image problem. "We tend to think of these hackers as little cherubs," said Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, a tad defensively. "But what they're doing has a very serious impact on the ability of these various agencies to get information out to the public...
Last week their suspicions gained supporting evidence. A 43-page report released by the American Civil Liberties Union showed the problem to be of national scope. Citing police statistics, case studies from 23 states and media reports, the organization asserts that law-enforcement agencies have systematically targeted minority travelers for search--pedestrians, motorists and airline passengers--based on the belief that they are more likely than whites to commit crimes. Says David Harris, the University of Toledo law professor who wrote the A.C.L.U. study: "It affects blacks and Hispanics from every station in life and every geographic location...
Amanda Kaplan, a senior at Masterman High in Philadelphia, wonders how the state can keep telling students there's no more money for education, "but then they find it for stadiums." Jessicah Smith, a senior at West Philadelphia High, has no problem with new stadiums, "but I'm against the idea of using public money." In December they and about 30 other students stood on the steps of city hall and put their own spin on The Twelve Days of Christmas: "Five budget cuts, four broken bathrooms, three schools a-rotting, two books per classroom and a stadium for [Eagles...
Cambridge may be a long way from Iowa, but he says he had little problem adjusting to life at Harvard...